'obedience' definitions:
Definition of 'obedience'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [syn: obedience, obeisance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance]
noun
The trait of being willing to obey [ant: disobedience]
noun
Behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: obedience, respect]
Definition of 'obedience'
From: GCIDE
- Priory \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. [1913 Webster]
- Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Cloister. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'obedience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- adaptability,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adjustment,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- agreement,
- amenability,
- assent,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- consent,
- consistency,
- conventionality,
- correspondence,
- deference,
- docility,
- dutifulness,
- flexibility,
- harmony,
- homage,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- keeping,
- kneeling,
- line,
- malleability,
- meekness,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obeisance,
- observance,
- orthodoxy,
- passive resistance,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- pliancy,
- Quakerism,
- quietism,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- respect,
- respectfulness,
- strictness,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- submittal,
- subservience,
- supineness,
- tractability,
- traditionalism,
- uncomplainingness,
- uniformity,
- yielding